Episode 10 - From Perceptions to Knowledge Pt 1 - Sensibility and Intuition: Pt 1

A brief introduction to Transcendental Aesthetic from Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Some basic vocabulary from the Critique is introduced to get started on Kant's theory of perception.

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Episode 9 - Driven to Meaning - Part 2: From Rules to Meaning

What are the basic rules we follow? We guess that they lie deep in the human psyche. How can we get at them?

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Episode 8 - Driven to Meaning - Part 1: The Doorway Effect

How much of our experience with the world is predetermined by the contents of our mind?

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Episode 7 - Nietzsche and Morality Wrap-Up: A Final Thought or Two

A few last words concerning Nietzsche's writing style and how it affects our image of him.

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Episode 6 - Nietzsche and Morality - Pt 4: We Weak Ones

This episode concludes a four-part series focusing on Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals. Final commentary is presented as a recording of a talk given by Nietzsche scholar Bernard Reginster at Amherst College in 2017.

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Episode 5 - Nietzsche and Morality - Pt 3: Ressentiment

In this episode, sections 9 - 12 of the first essay of On the Genealogy of Morals are covered. Nietzsche's concept of Ressentiment is introduced, and he laments the diminution of the spirit of man.

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Episode 4 - Nietzsche and Morality - Part 2: The Slave Revolt

Here we cover sections 5 - 8 of the first essay of On The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche. These sections cover Nietzsche's explanation of the transition from a culture of hero worship in ancient Greece and Early Rome to one in which people worship a god who demands self denial, one he (Nietzsche) calls a slave morality.

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